Tags: Amazon Echo

As the internet of things technology marches forward, college students who participate in this year’s RJI Student Competition will be challenged to develop products to help improve lives in smart homes through news delivery.

The sky’s the limit for participants in the 2017–2018 RJI Student Competition, sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. This year students may address any issue facing the news media.

Although news stories can be fed automatically from a CMS to Alexa-equipped devices like the Amazon Echo, Christopher Biondi believes tailoring the content to the new platform is the best way to provide a good listening experience.

In this week’s news, Hulk Hogan takes Gawker Media to court over a sex tape, public radio station WNYC introduces sharable “audiograms” and Verifeye Media launches an iPhone app that can verify eyewitness media — and get contributors paid!